Indentify plant

[horselady]

Can anyone help me identify a plant please? My mother always had it in her garden and she gave me roots for my first garden but I've never been able to find it since. It had shamrock shaped leaves and little pink flowers that closed up in the evenings. It was a good edging plant, I'd love to find it again and have it in the garden now but I certainly don't see it in any garden centres. If ever I spot it again in a garden I'm going to knock on their door and ask for a root!

[AlBags]

Wood Sorrel? ... Oxalis Triangularis, maybe?
Available with light pink flowers.
http://en.wikipedia.o...i/Oxalis_triangularis

[rowanwitch]

it will be an oxalis of some kind
http://healthyhomegar...ink_oxalis_190870.jpg

Lots of others in the family, I like the dark bronze one with yellow flowers and the iron cros one with two tone leaves

[Bobbisox]

oops sorry I thought that said infidelity plant! and thought
What do you do with one of them..lol
Sorry!

[horselady]

Thank you so much-you sent me off on the right track and it's Oxalis Arborea. Can you buy it anywhere do you think, I spend loads of time wandering round garden centres but have never spotted it.

Lol at Bobbisox!

[rowanwitch]

I've checked all the major herbaceous nurseries I use regularly and some seed catalogues that do rare plants but none of them have it listed, I think arborea is the wild form and you wont find it for sale, but you may find some kind person has it growing as a weed who would give you a few corms to get started,, I also tried the RHS plant finder but they don't list it either.

There are specialist wild flower nurseries you could try googling a few of those.

[horselady]

Thank you rowanwitch, good of you to try for me.